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DYNAMIC DYNAMO

BEHIND THE CURTAIN
STEPHEN BRANDT LOOKS BACK AT A UKRAINE CLUB’S GLORY DAYS

Champions: Kiev win the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1975

Key striker: Oleg Blokhin

Inspiration: Manager Valeri Lobanovsky

DYNAMO Kiev have a great history and one of their peak times was in the 1970s when the world didn’t know too much about the Soviet Union.
Due to the Iron Curtain, we only got to see what was put out via the state-run media.
But Dynamo Kiev are one of those clubs the world should know more of. In the 1970s, they were THE club in the region.
They were managed by Valeri L...

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